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It is amazing to me how after all the years have gone by and all the past instances and crimes and despite the aches or the pains or scars that never healed, I still have a sense of affection for the wild chaos that comes when being bad....
This almost certainly has already been figured out by someone else, but here goes: D66 is really handy to index a radial hexmap, so long as it has a radius of 3 from the center. Then you can use a hex stocking procedure but—instead of...
We have officially entered peak summer produce season, so I’ll be eating juicy ripe tomatoes, corn on the cob, and summer squash all day, every day. One of my favorite dishes to make this time of year is panzanella, and Calvin Eng’s Yauh...
August is here and so is blaugust. I stumbled upon that post in bluesky and since I want to write more, I figured I’d join. I’m already four days behind so I need to ramp up. In order to meet the goal of 31 posts, I’m going to try to do...
The Stable Release of Bazzite Deck 44 is Coming bazzite.gg It’s been a long road and we appreciate everyone’s excitement and patience as the stable release of the brand-new Deck/HTPC image of Bazzite draws near. With it come many new...
I woke up this morning wondering where the past week has gone. What did I do? Where did I go? Why has time gone by so quickly? I don’t have an answer for most of it. But what I do know is, the weather has been decent this week and I’m...
The past few weeks have been an un-Boston-like level of dry and pleasant out, weather-wise, so of course this week is when the humidity comes back. The big event of the week was Creative Juices, my work’s annual-ish art show where staff,...
Making videos was one of those things I said I’d never do. Until I suddenly created a YouTube channel.
Someone decided to put this dataset into a pie chart, which purportedly leads to its effective communication. (Hat tip to long-time reader Aleksander B. for this example.)Good news is that the order of labels in the legend aligns with...
I wanted to implement 2FA as per RFC 6238. This is the Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP) algorithm that is used by Google Authenticator and other 2FA apps. This was originally `vibe coded`. The vibe coding got me 80% of the way there,...
Cold and clear, with dew dripping from the sun-struck roof. The dying lilac is re-greening with bindweed: ladders of heart-shaped leaves. In the woods, between sunbeams, a pewee’s bent note.
Corners of the Deep Dark is a space opera that drops on September 8th. You can get the first chapter as a free download from this site or the new Payhip store. Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, K. Noll, J. Kastner, M. Zamani...
“When you are content to be simply yourself, and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you.” - Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 8Hello friends! I’m starting this morning at the voting booth, voting for our state parks and against...
As I finish building the first iteration of our in-house “agent platform” that is tailored to our specific needs, I found myself questioning if the criticism of the NIH(Not Invented Here) syndrome has changed as a result of AI-powered...
Some things don’t ever get old, and I can tell you that publication day for one of your books is one of those things. Today is that day: the new 3rd edition of The Scientist’s Guide to Writing is out! I got my own copies a couple of...